I have all reasons to push myself for this post at 1 am though I am feeling a little sleeping (but I am feeling much better now). Keeping it short with some images:

Scene #4 of Bday: Why am I feeling so successful … I managed to undo scene 3 here.

Scene #3: Meine sab ko kitne pyar se lagya tha (sorry light problem, all are mobi pics).. Prabhat ne puri gardhan me laga di .. ears, eyes kuch nahi choda … still I can smell the cake .. it took me some good minutes to clean this up but was fun except the color … what color .. see scene 1

Scene #2: Sab kitne chup chap hai .. so nice … they were not so nice in scene # 3 …. Oh the color… see scene #1 for colorful view

Scene #1 Who bought this cake ???? with such hard colors … the red color cream was put on my head … some green color here and there … red color was really really really hard .. had to wash many times … now you know why I was feeling so successful at scene #4

Overall it was such a great great day ……………

Thanks to every one

Slept late at 1:30 after some calls. There was no one present for Bday bumps but I felt as if it was outsourced to Behala mosquitoes and they were doing there work wonderfully when I was on phone. Slept really deep (don’t even remember a single dream or mosquito bumps), got up when I got a call at 7:30 (I got to know her through this blog only, blogging is good I guess), this was a surprise call, heard her voice for the first time (Thanks, it was so nice of you). Mom, dad were happy as I got a good sleep. Some calls/mails/smses/scraps kept me smiling … Driver ji also gifted some flowers and cards (so nice of him) … and reached office very late … Got permission to use orkut at office … calls/mails/smses/scraps went on through out the day … then office party … and while coming back dropped at Sheere -Punjab for some diet-tandoori chicken .. at home dad bought some special fruit cake .. calls from cousins/relatives … India winning in style (uttapa/sachin kya khela hai) … End of the day I am burping and smiling .. thanks for making this day so wonderful … God bless all. Good night!

Thank You God

(pic separated by 21 years and 80 months 🙂 )

8 days and 3 sleepless nights, not good at all. Its not because of time problem, it may be because of extra thinking or unwanted tension. I need to take care of myself. Need to go for a medical checkup soon. So avoiding regular blogging for few days.

I do eat a lot of fruits in the morning. Almost 30 mins – 1 hr of workout in early morning and an hr of ping-pong at eve. I need to drink a lot of water as well. After consulting my medical friends here are some advices for health:

• Before sleep don’t think too much, relax, watch TV or do something where you don’t have to think.
• Put some perfume on your bed. It helps in a sound sleep.
• Eat healthy, drink a lot of water too.
• Don’t worry such things happens to everyone just take care of yourself and keep the smile.
• Go for a medical checkup, BP check for sure. Keep working out.

I can’t afford to lose the ability to sleep 24 hrs a day. I want to be lazy again and sleep like one who have sold everything. So please don’t expect many post in the coming days 🙁 .

After talking to few people about the need of another Gandhi i left for Aug 15 celebrations at Church, where we had different competitions and programs. It is a big story, keeping it short with some images. Enjoy!

Update: More pics at http://www.idealwebtools.com/blog/15-aug-pics/

(Click on the images to enlarge it, I am waiting for more images)


speaking on "Never Never Never Quit"

Pic1: Bargaining for a land	Pic2: Business Man	Pic3: Taking an interview
Pic4: Desperately asking for a job	Pic5: Editing ….	Pic6: (Sur)Prize
Pic7: Bro, who is taller?	Pic8: My bro	Pic9: Lunch time – I am on diet but 🙁

Skit was more fun as we mixed up our dialogs and director was all shocked and we were all laughing and laughing …..
Pic2: I am left on stage without co-actors as they misplaced their costumes and I was asked to cookup some runtime dialogs.
Pic 4: He forgot the scene and was not falling on my feet and I kept on repeating the same dialog. We had to be reminded by the director.

Overall it was more fun that we thought, I enjoyed the day. The topic of the final speech was “How you can and should make a difference in the society”. There were few interesting stories with great morals. I will be writing it over all soon.

I see people more independent, more confident and ready to dream big. From being a third nation India is cruising with great self-believe. I have seen more entrepreneurs coming out of recent batches than ever before. In last 60 years we have achieved a lot and in recent few years even more.

Look at the sensex for last 2 years:

People are investing more with mutual funds(taking risks), starting more companies and so on and on. Keep going India and

“Happy Independence Day to all”

My message for the day
Take pride in what you do and excel in whatever you do. Do India need another Gandhi? Probably no but it certainly needs more Manjunaths, Capt Saurabh Kalias and more importantly you and me. Don’t forget to play your part in India’s growth. If you can work hard and create another job, do that. If you can bring smile on one more Indian face, do that, it doesn’t cost you a penny. You don’t need to sit on roads to show your involvement. Everyone of us is needed and wishing you a very responsible, independent, empowered, less selfish and happy Independence day-year.

My Plan for the day
We have many programs today, my fav is the community lunch next to skit. I am playing two small roles – “A real estate buyer” and “Business Man” (I still need to prepare the dialogs, we are already warned for extra improvisation like asking different question than the planned, sorry can’t remember all Malayalam lines) . Then I will be presenting a short-story and a speech. I will be back home by 7:00.

Share your message with others.

As a marketer we were always taught that ladies talk more and should be targeted for major viral marketing campaigns. According to the stats: “A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000“.

Mark Liberman strongly disagrees with the stats. (It also contains the snippet of the above referred book which talks a lot about (fe)male brain, like fight-talks-look-sex-phone-etc, you may need it anytime.)

Do ladies talk more?

What do you say?

As someone (it has to be one and only one, Sidhu) rightly said, “Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital“. Here is a conversation between a husband and his own wife.

Let’s take it A husband looking through the paper came upon a study that said women use more words than men.
Excited to prove to his wife that he had been right all along when he accused her of talking too much, he showed her the study results. It read “Men use about 15,000 words per day, but women use 30,000”.
The wife thought for a while, then finally she said to her husband “It’s because we have to repeat everything we say.”
The husband said “What?”

More funny (and good) topics can be found at my other blog. (1. How do you guess the sex of a bird? 2. What a woman really wants????, enjoy 3. Do You Have Male Or Female Mind? Easy find)

According to latest research, During a 17-hour day Men speak just as many words (about 15,669) as the women do (16,215).

Can orkut scrapbooks be used for some more research?

What is your opinion about it?

Like me if you have interest in watching Indian Internet market and web user behavior then this post is certainly for you. I see all positive signs now, be it community building or my neighbor/student pressing more and more of Google search button for homeworks.

Here are some of the stats for a world-wide comparison:
(Subscribers per 100 inhabitants)

Denmark	31.9
Netherlands	31.8
Iceland	29.7
Korea	29.1
Switzerland	28.5
Norway	27.7
Finland	27.2
Sweden	26.0
Canada	23.8
Belgium	22.5
United Kingdom	21.6
Luxembourg	20.4
France	20.3
Japan	20.2
United States	19.6
Australia	19.2
Austria	17.3
Germany	17.1
Spain	15.3
Italy	14.8

More details at http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/Broadband%20Commentary.pdf

India is somewhere 0.19. For more of Indian stats click here. Expecting 9 million broadband users by the end of 2007, from 2 million to 9 million in one year, not bad at all.

One stat that really motivated(also surprised) me to think sleep over my old ideas, “13% of American adults report they have downloaded or watched video ads“. Video is happening big time, I too watch ping pong videos on youtube to improve my game at office.

I am off again, 2 offs in 3 days, very unusual but a welcome change, compensating for not attending the family gathering on Saturday and for being a mere lodger for last few weeks. What am I doing? I prepared Alu parathas (which tasted more atta than paratha but everyone managed to find some appreciation alphabets) for the breakfast. An entrepreneur can learn few things from Mom, she had managed the risk well by having some backup breakfast ready.

To digest such a heavy breakfast, here are some crowdsourcing sites:

1. Complexity and Social Networks Blog – Complexity and Social Networks Blog of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Program on Networked Governance, Harvard University.
2. crowdsourcing.typepad.com by Jeff Howe. He is a wired guy and his article “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” is considered among the alphas in this rack.
3. creating passionate users – One of my fav. I refer these articles to new recruits. You might have heard of Kathy Sierra. Even Indian news had covered the death threats to her.
4. freakonomics, good to see that they have moved to NYT. I liked the post, “Who comment on blogs and why?”.
5. futureofcommunities.com

Will I be reading this today?
Na, I will be reading http://www.37signals.com/svn/ and about hylafax.

Now, will I get a chance to mess up lunch as well? Yes off-course, this time it will be a special vegetable packed omelet and chicken salad :). So cool … enjoy life!

I was listening to MTV during morning workouts and here is a great health tip to start your tiring day. Remove your shoes whenever possible. Keeping your shoes on makes you more tired. Wow, I do it most of the time :).

3 more (unwanted) tips:

1. Use workrave.
2. Don’t chat while working. It takes you only 3 secs to get disturbed but almost a couple of minutes for restoration. Take breaks to chat but don’t mix work with chat.
3. Walk the talk :), I sometimes walk while on phone (Generally I am on phone for almost 2 to 3 hours).

Enjoy the work that you don’t have to work!

I am finding it extremely difficult to find time for blogging. These days I am working with a CA based startup Law firm, a great learning experience but very hectic schedule with no offs :). Sorry if some of your mails are unanswered (unread mail count is 500 now) or some comments are in moderation. I will be taking an off this Friday to finish off the pending tasks. I will be changing my writing style to conversational way for quick blogging.

• What is this about?
  Instead of writing a long post I will write it in a conversational way. This makes my life easier as at work this is what I do most of the time.
• Won’t it make the post boring?
  I don’t think so. I think, it will make my posts rather more interesting. Anyway as usual I am going to give it a try :).
• How will it save you time?
  I used to spend (a lot of) time in organizing my thoughts in paragraphs and headings. Now I can just ask some questions and answer it myself, this will (might) make it faster for me.
• Good, when are you going to blog next time :)? Any thought for the day?
  I will try to blog as soon as I find some free time. I have 6 to 7 posts under draft. My next post will be about “Right approach can make wrong right” followed by a post on “Secrets to blog magic“.
• Looking forward for the posts, what about the thought of the day?
  Hmm.. here we go, “If I am defeated by myself then I am the winner” (hey thats my copyright 🙂 ). Keep defeating yourself, be it your work, be it TT or be it impressing your friend. If my today is better than yesterday, I am sure my tomorrow will be better than today. Keep fighting with a smile. Happy new week!

Thanks to all who responded to my post “Girl: Aji, you are hot“. Finally the romantic fever is over and some uh ah ouch is still there. WOW, My romantic fever is the most commented post so far on this blog with over 25 comments.

I took a complete rest on Sunday as well, no work at all :), taking medicine for body pain. Thanks to all for the wishes and prayer. A new week, new challenge – appraisal system.